Top Chef

Top Chef offers a fascinating window into the competitive, pressure-filled environment of world class cookery and the restaurant business at the highe...more

Top Chef offers a fascinating window into the competitive, pressure-filled environment of world class cookery and the restaurant business at the highe...more

Top Chef

TV14 • Family, Cooking & Food, Reality • TV Series • 2006

Top Chef offers a fascinating window into the competitive, pressure-filled environment of world class cookery and the restaurant business at the highest level. The series features seventeen aspiring chefs who compete for their shot at culinary stardom and the chance to earn the prestigious title of "Top Chef."

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It'll Take More than Pot Luck

Chefs enter the kitchen in Denver and are put to work, tasked with making a pot luck dish. Then the cheftestants prepare their take on a meat and potatoes dish for a block party with Denver's biggest culinary names.

Episode 2

Smile and Say Mise

Acclaimed Chef Alex Seidel invites the group to his farm to learn about farm-to-table cuisine. There, they are tasked with creating a progressive meal incorporating a mystery ingredient from the farm into each dish.

Episode 3

Keep on Truckin'

In a Sudden Death Quickfire, the intensity in the kitchen is egg-ceptional. Then, the cheftestants tap into their college palates as they make dishes in food trucks. Chef Hosea Rosenberg joins the judges for indulgent, hangover inspired food.

Episode 4

Little Tools, Big Challenge

The chefs make upscale versions of kid menu classics. But there's a catch, they can only use child-sized cookware, utensils and mixers. Then, the chefs must present dishes based on their heritage for Immigrant food influencers.

Episode 5

This is not Glamping

In a competition first, the chefs are sent camping to make a 5-star meal outdoors. With only a few heat sources and limited local ingredients, the chefs must get resourceful. Chef Naomi Pomeroy joins the judges in the Colorado Mountains.

Episode 6

Now That's a lot of Schnitzel

The chefs using Tasty online videos to transform the most laborious dishes from their own menus into accessible thirty minute dishes for home cooks. Then, celebrated German chef, Keegan Gerhard, exposes the chefs to authentic Germanic food.

Episode 7

Olympic Dreams

Padma and Brooke Williamson surprise the chefs at their house and task them to create a delicious breakfast dish featuring Nutella. Then, Olympians inspire the chefs to focus on precision, speed and creativity in the first-ever Top Chef Olympics.

Episode 8

Restaurant Wars

The chefs face-off in Restaurant Wars, creating and executing two new restaurant concepts. Culinary icons Bruce and Eric Bromberg join the judges to evaluate each restaurant. Nothing is ever as heated as a kitchen under this kind of pressure.

Episode 9

Bronco Brouhaha

Cooking for Michelin-starred Chef David Kinch adds pressure to the Sudden Death Quickfire. Then, the chefs put an elevated slant on pre-game food as they host the ultimate tailgate party at Sports Authority Field at Mile High for the Denver Broncos.

Episode 10

Red Rum and Then Some

With their Quickfire set at the Stanley Hotel, the inspiration for Stephen King's "The Shining," the chefs put their scariest nightmares on a plate. Then, the chefs offer a dish representing their own Colorado journeys to Governor John Hickenlooper.

Episode 11

Cooking High

The Chefs embark on the first leg of the finals. For the Quickfire, they are tasked to make a dish incorporating sarsaparilla. Then the chefs cook at Alpino Vino, where they prepare a dish that must include a baking element.

Episode 12

Sunday Supper

The Voltaggio Brothers reunite since competing against each other. Their first task is judging the Rocky Mountain Oyster Quickfire. Then, they reunite the chefs with surprise visitors from home in an emotionally charged Elimination Challenge.

Episode 13

A Little Place Called Aspen

The Chefs get a crash course in fly fishing and have to prepare what they catch. Then, the only thing standing between the chefs and the Grand Finale is the country's most notable chefs and food connoisseurs attending the FOOD & WINE Classic.

Episode 14

Finale

In an epic showdown in Aspen, the final two chefs cook the meal of their lives in an effort to take home the ultimate title and prize. They’ll need to impress the judges and culinary superstars. Only one will be crowned Top Chef.

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